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lilyofcourse


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Why does every storm need a name now?



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Um, they've always named storms.

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No. Hurricanes maybe.

But not every storm system.

This is "winter storm Ilias" and the next is "winter storm Jonas".

The blizzard of '93 is just that. No name.



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Are they naming this storm? I never heard of that either. Just hurricanes.

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Oh yeah.

I started noticing it this summer.



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Hurricanes, tropical storms, etc.

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I've always heard them name storms.

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I am starting to watch "Me and Earl and The Dying Girl."

I hope it's as good as the book!

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"Winter Storm Leon" turned up in a few places this week as a name for the cold snap and precipitation that paralyzed south Louisiana, and much of the South, for two days. That raises the question: Just when did winter storms start getting names?

 

Sure, tropical weather storms have carried official names, courtesy of the National Weather Service, for more than a half century. But the federal agency doesn't name winter storms.

The Weather Channel, however, does. On its own, the commercial television and online service began naming winter storms in 2012. On weather.com, Tom Niziol explained the decision.

South Louisiana might be forgiven for missing this would-be trend. It suffers few winter storms -- and, indeed, not much of a winter at all.

And it turns out that not all smile on The Weather Channel's practice. "The likely reason for the naming of winter storms is, of course, ratings. ... Without viewers, they don't exist," says ablog post on wunderground.com. Said Joel Myers,AccuWeather founder and president: "We have explored this issue for 20 years and have found that this is not good science and will mislead the public."

http://www.nola.com/weather/index.ssf/2014/01/when_did_winter_storms_start_g.html



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DD bought me red velvet oreos.

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DD bought me red velvet oreos.

 Yum?

 



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lilyofcourse wrote:
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DD bought me red velvet oreos.

 Yum?

 

 Yep!



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Southern_Belle wrote:
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DD bought me red velvet oreos.

 Yum?

 

 Yep!

 Then YAY!!!!



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DH is going to make me bacon roses...

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DH is going to make me bacon roses...

 To eat or just look at?

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flan327 wrote:
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DH is going to make me bacon roses...

 To eat or just look at?

flan

 To eat!

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I am starting to watch "Me and Earl and The Dying Girl."

I hope it's as good as the book!

flan

 Let me know! I loved that book.



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From USA Today:

Fueled by a combination of the natural El Niño climate pattern and man-made global warming, 2015 was the planet's warmest year since records began in 1880, federal scientists announced Wednesday.

The average temperature across the Earth's land and ocean surfaces was 1.62 degrees above average in 2015, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It was largest margin by which an annual global temperature record has ever been broken, NOAA said.

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1880? Wow. I wonder about the 1000 years before that. 

 



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lilyofcourse wrote:

Why does every storm need a name now?

 They started naming the snow storms about 2 years ago.  It's stupid.



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The storm is going to go out to sea before hitting my area!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yippee no 24". Phew. Sorry for you mid Atlantic peeps.

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I know what to do_sometimes wrote:
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Why does every storm need a name now?

 They started naming the snow storms about 2 years ago.  It's stupid.

 I posted an article from NWS. They don't name anything but tropical storms.

 

The Weather Channel started doing it in 2014.



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lilyofcourse wrote:

Why does every storm need a name now?

 They started naming the snow storms about 2 years ago.  It's stupid.

 I posted an article from NWS. They don't name anything but tropical storms.

 

The Weather Channel started doing it in 2014.

 Well in my defense, I didn't define "they".  Isn't it awful how the Media controls our thinking?



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I know what to do_sometimes wrote:
lilyofcourse wrote:
I know what to do_sometimes wrote:
lilyofcourse wrote:

Why does every storm need a name now?

 They started naming the snow storms about 2 years ago.  It's stupid.

 I posted an article from NWS. They don't name anything but tropical storms.

 

The Weather Channel started doing it in 2014.

 Well in my defense, I didn't define "they".  Isn't it awful how the Media controls our thinking?

 No defense necessary. 

And yeah. It is awful.

 



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Even the news stations cannot agree on what we are going to get as far as snow. Reports are anywhere from 6" to 24".

Sigh, and I truly need to stop tomorrow and pick up bread and eggs. Milk too if MIL decides to come stay with us for the weekend since she is nervous about the storm. She is the one with a fireplace if power is lost.

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I have to laugh because "Katrina" was one of my nicknames. An old boyfriend used to call me that.

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Just looked at my Facebook. Three people had just wished me a happy birthday. The problem is that my birthday is not till nov. I don't want to embarrass anyone but this is kind of awkward.

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Just looked at my Facebook. Three people had just wished me a happy birthday. The problem is that my birthday is not till nov. I don't want to embarrass anyone but this is kind of awkward.

 Just thank them and tell them something got messed up.  Your birthday is not until November.  It'll be okay!



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I have to laugh because "Katrina" was one of my nicknames. An old boyfriend used to call me that.

 There was a tropical storm I shared a name with.

 



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Lindley wrote:

Just looked at my Facebook. Three people had just wished me a happy birthday. The problem is that my birthday is not till nov. I don't want to embarrass anyone but this is kind of awkward.

Did they at least send you presents?

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NAOW wrote:
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I am starting to watch "Me and Earl and The Dying Girl."

I hope it's as good as the book!

flan

 Let me know! I loved that book.

 I'm not very far into it yet.

They've jumped right into things without the exposition that you get in the book.

(Yes, I realize it's a movie!)

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